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Volume XVI Issue 236
Monday, July 1st, 2024
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Hurray! It’s Time for Our SusanvilleStuff Summer Vacation!
We’ve reached the mid-point of our Susanville Summer and it’s time for us to close our office for a brief break before we come back to a busy month, including the Lassen County Fair! Our offices will be closed until July 8th as we take some time off to get out and enjoy our Lassen County summer.
We will still be around to cover the Rainbow Gathering, breaking news or stories that are important, plus we will still have vital daily features like Smith Properties’ Morning Weather, LMUD’s ‘This Day in History’ and some other assorted goodies.
Have a wonderful week everybody!
Jeremy, Marshel, Terra, Shelley and Mikalah
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Banner Lassen Recognized with
Award for Outstanding Maternity Care
Susanville’s Banner Lassen Medical Center has been recognized by the California Maternal Quality Care Collaborative with a 2024 Quality and Sustainability Award in recognition of the healthcare team’s outstanding commitment to quality improvement in maternity care.
This award is given to hospitals that achieved a target Cesarean Birth rate of ≤23.6% among their Nulliparous, Term, Singleton, Vertex (NTSV) birthing population consecutively from CY 2021 – CY 2024.
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According to the hospital the target rate for this Joint Commission-stewarded measure, also referred to as PC-02, is set by the World Health Organization’s Healthy People 2030 objectives.
CMQCC is a nationally recognized maternal quality improvement group that focuses on improving hospital based maternity care in California.
Banner Lassen Medical Center is one of 116 hospitals being recognized for their accomplishments in 2023, distributing seven awards across three main award categories:
- The Early Implementers Awards, which recognizes hospitals that implemented a new Maternal Data Center measure or feature
- The Quality and Sustainability Awards, which recognizes hospitals’ quality and sustainability efforts in three different areas
- The Superstar Awards, which recognize hospitals that exhibited high levels of engagement in the MDC.
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Cal-FIRE Stresses Safety as
Fourth of July Approaches
State fire officials are stressing the dangers of illegal fireworks and the improper use of ‘Safe and Sane’ fireworks, urging residents to protect their community by preventing fires and injuries caused by fireworks.
Before you think about buying fireworks for your celebration, make sure they are permitted where you live. Fireworks purchased out-of-state are illegal in California without a license.
This Fourth of July, remember to celebrate responsibly here in Susanville, where Safe and Sane fireworks are permitted.
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It’s important that you follow these safety tips:
- Never use illegal fireworks.
- Make sure the firework has the State Fire Marshal “Safe and Sane” seal on it.
- Make sure the “Safe and Sane” firework is purchased from a licensed fireworks booth.
- Never allow young children to use or handle fireworks.
- Never use fireworks while impaired by drugs or alcohol.
- Never hold a lit firework in your hands.
- Never light fireworks indoors.
- Never light Safe and Sane fireworks on or near dry grass or other flammable vegetation.
- Only use them away from people, houses, and flammable materials.
- Never point or throw fireworks at another person or animal.
- Do not try to re-light or handle malfunctioning fireworks.
- Soak both spent and unused fireworks in water for an extended time before discarding.
- Keep a bucket of water nearby to fully extinguish fireworks that don’t go off or in case of
- fire.
“With fireworks causing over 46 million dollars in property loss statewide over the last decade with over 10,500 fires in total, preventing fires and injuries caused by fireworks begins with you,” said Chief Daniel Berlant, California State Fire Marshal.
“Don’t be the reason your Fourth of July holiday goes up in smoke.”
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Plumas National Forest Issues
Update on Rainbow Gathering
Plumas National Forest announced Friday evening that members of the Rainbow Family, who had already begun their annual gathering on the headwaters of Indian Creek near Janesville, are relocating to a location 12 miles north of Beckwourth.
“Today, the Forest Service became aware that the Unauthorized Noncommercial Group Use Incident (Rainbow Family Gathering) that was occurring in the Indian Creek Headwaters area on the Mount Hough Ranger District moved to a new location near the intersection of Forest Road 28N01 and 26N70 on the Beckwourth Ranger District approximately, 12 miles north of Beckwourth,” explains Plumas National Forest Public Affairs Officer Tamara Schmidt.
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“The Forest and National Incident Management Team has been tracking the location change and is already sending resources to evaluate the area for concerns and public health and safety,” said Plumas National Forest Supervisor Chris Carlton.
“This area was previously used as a fire camp, so we are already familiar with it.”
The National Incident Management Team will continue to protect public health and safety and ensure that all national forest visitors obey federal, state, and local laws and regulations.
According to the PNF the Indian Creek Headwaters Road and Area Closure Order remains in effect for the protection of natural, Tribal, and cultural resources, concerns about fire danger, public health and sanitation, and upholding permitted special use where the unauthorized noncommercial group use was occurring.
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Peter Lassen’s monument in a 1930’s photo | |
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Lassen Site Deed Signed
July 1, 1952
Property bearing the peter Lassen monument has been deeded by Miss Hannah Hulsman to the Susanville parlor of the Native Daughters of the Golden West.
The scenic ground on which is the grave of one of California’s foremost pioneers as a favorite attraction in this area and has been a [art of the Hulsman ranch.
In presenting the deed Miss Hulsman stated she wanted to have the Native Daughters to have the property because of their interest and work in the preservation of California’s historic landmarks.
Miss Hulman’s gift represents the area enclosed by a fence around the monument, and consists of approximately an acre of land, according to Mrs. Georgia B. Jensen, recording secretary of the Susanville parlor.
Mrs. Jensen state that the Native Daughters’ first project on the property will be to further clean and beautiful the area, and to establish a picnic area.
The monument, located about six miles south of Susanville on the Richmond road, stands at the foot of Diamond Mountain. Lassen frequently commented on the scenic beauty of the area, and following his death in 1859, at which time he was buried near Black Rock in Stone Cole Valley, his grave was moved to its present location.
When the first memorial erected by a Masonic organization to honor the famous settler, started to deteriorate, a second one was constructed and dedicated in 1917. The Masons have a particular affection for the memory of Peter Lassen because he started the first Masonic Lodge in California.
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